Norway News » Finnmark News Norway » Finnmark: A Norwegian winter storm led to the burning of 91 people at the stake and became one of the deadliest witchcraft trials
In 1617, a winter storm in Norway sparked the Finnmark witch trials, leading to the burning of 91 people at the stake. It was the deadliest witchcraft trials in Norwegian history. On Christmas Eve in ...
News Norway » Finnmark: Norway’s Finnmark brigade to boost Arctic border defense, reevaluate training limits
Major General Lars Lervik is strengthening the Norwegian Army in Finnmark. (Atle Staalesen/The Independent Barents Observer) Norway’s new Finnmark Brigade will closely cooperate with Finnish forces ...
News Norway » Finnmark: Norway to invite Ukraine instead of Russia to mark 80th anniversary of Finnmark's liberation from Nazis
The authorities of Norway's region of Finnmark will send an invitation to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to attend the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the region's eastern part from ...
News Norway » Finnmark: Norway's Sami population posed an enigma for the occupying Nazis, researcher says
Historian and Ph.D. research fellow Andreas Eliassen Grini at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has delved into German soldiers' descriptions of their experiences in Northern ...